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Case Description

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In the winter of 2014, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the life of 38-year-old Paul Brian Rector came to a violent and abrupt end. On the night of Monday, December 15, 2014, Rector was inside a residence on Stuart Street where he had been staying. He and a woman named Amy Lynn Bates, described as his best friend, were lodging in a spare bedroom of a house belonging to Diane Hays.

That evening, the friendship took a tragic turn when Bates, then 29 years old, allegedly shot Rector in the head wh ...Read More

Victim Details

Paul Brian Rector

Male

White / Caucasian

Chattanooga

TN

2014-12-15

38

Paul

Brian Rector

04/24/2026